I saved my Grandma's recipes and now I'm going to share them (and some new ones) with you.
I learned to cook standing on a chair next to my Grandma's kitchen table
My love affair with food and cooking began in my grandma's kitchen and led to my career as a chef.
So if you have funny stories about cooking you'd like to share, please do. I'll share my stories with you and we'll take a walk down memory lane together. It'll be a blast!

DID YOU KNOW?..............................

Never re-tighten seals once out of the water bath. Doing so will break the seal you already have.

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When canning and using Fruit-Fresh, a cheaper alternative is to use Vit C tablets. 6000 mg to 1 gallon of water to soak your fruit in.

DID YOU KNOW

Place garlic cloves in the microwave for 15 seconds and the skins slip right off.

DID YOU KNOW?

Fresh eggs' shells are rough and chalky; old eggs are smooth and shiny.

DID YOU KNOW?

The best way to store fresh celery is to wrap it in aluminum foil and put it in the refrigerator--it will keep for weeks.

DID YOU KNOW?

Letting raw potatoes stand in cold water for at least half an hour before frying to improve the crispness of french-fried potatoes.

DID YOU KNOW?

Microwave garlic cloves for 15 seconds and the skins slip right off.

DID YOU KNOW?

* Cheese won't harden if you butter the exposed edges before storing. Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

The best potatoes for chowder and soup recipes are round red potatoes, round white potatoes and Yukon golds. But russets are the best for baking because of their low moisture content.

DID YOU KNOW?

that Storing potatoes in the fridge converts the potato starch to sugar. And exposure to sunlight turns them green and makes them bitter. Russet or Yukon gold potatoes will yield the fluffiest mashed potatoes.

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'We ate at a place called 'at home,'' 'Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Do you wish you had saved your grandma's recipes?

I did! and now I am going to share them, and some new ones, with you. But first, let me tell you a bit about myself.I learned to cook standing in a chair next to my Bigmother's kitchen table scrutenizing every move she made and begging to "lick the bowl" when she was through mixing up whatever she was cooking. Especially when what she was cooking was a cake, or a pie or some other delectable sweet I loved. It always seemed to me that she scraped that bowl out wayyyy too good and I feared nothing would be left in it for me.I questioned every move she made and every ingredient she added with, "Why're you doing that Bigmother"? and "What's that for"? By the time I was 11 years old I had learned enough to cook my first meal, under her supervision of course. Back then, we're talking "40" here folks, I don't think they even made canned spaghetti sauce and if they did, we never bought any. Everything was made fresh, from "scratch" as we say now, right from our garden. Even though my Bigdaddy raised hogs and tobacco, he still planted a garden every year and the only things we bought from the Kroger grocery store were the staples like flour, sugar, stone-ground cornmeal and canned milk even though we had a cow. My spaghetti dinner turned out great, even though I cooked the pasta to a mush LOL But she let me make that mistake to teach me the importance of cooking all the dishes at the right time so that they were done together. And I think that was when my love affair with food and cooking began. So if you have any funny stories about cooking you'd like to share with me, I'll share a few of mine with you and we'll take a walk down memory lane together. It should be a blast!

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Deonia..let me be the first to congratulate you on your new endeavor. I think a lot of us can relate to learning to cook by watching our mom's in the kitchen. We look forward to reading more of your posts.Bonnie

This is what we all love about cooking a person like you that is all about family. I would of never learned to cook if it hadn't of been for my grandma! I started my daughter and son there own cook books from me they are like a diary. So when they get older they will find the things they liked I made. Instead of always wondering..